The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-08-04
A Dakota Liar.
Dakota Bell.

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county and got into conversation
with a settler who was sitting in
front of his house,
"You have a fine farm here,
he said to the settle
"Bes. in the country, stranger.
"Do you raise big crops g"
"Crops Big cropsg"
"Yes, SIR
"Well, I calculate o!'
"The soil is very rich here, l
supposes'
THAT don't express it. rich
don't do 1t justice! This sIle is
perfect, absolutely perfect, best
in the world 1t Is deep as a
well, mellow as an ash heap, rich
as gold-yes, si-, no other sile in
the world will compare at all
with it!''
"Tm glad to hear it,
Say, stranger" continued the
settler straiShtening up, dye
hear that kinder holler, poundin'
sound 2"
The man admitted that he
didn't know hut he could hear
something.
Yes, kinder boomin' sound like
hittin' an empty barrel with an
old rubber boot" continued the
settler.
"Yes, what is it 2"
stranger. that's my punklns
bein' yanked along 'cross the
ground so fast they bound up'n
the air every once'n a while"
"Your punkinsg What is draw
ing them at that rate?"
1.-The vines, stranger, the vines
they CROWN SO fast We see.
I'VE have TO take fast horse an
lasso 'em when we gather 'em.
They'll be bout wore out. 1 have
to admit this is a poor place for
punkins and sqnashes. See that
little knoll over there, bout a
hundred yards cross it an twen-
ty feet high?"
That one down there with a
bushy tree growing on top of it?"
"Y-a s-but it haint no tree
Its a beet top"
"Why did you plant it on the
top of The knoll?"
"Didn't stranger, ground was
perfectly level when l planted it
there. Beet so big it kinder re'r
ed the ground up all round it and
made knoll. Planted one next
to my house the first year an it
hoisted it up and pretty near tip
ped it over"
"Isn't the season a little dry
for them ?''
"They go down to water, stran-
ger. That well there is the hole
that beet come out of. I had a
crabapple tree near the house
the same year, an the apples
grew so big they busted and
broke all my winders Want 70
hear how we husk corn?'
"I'll try and stand it."
'We chop off an ear an let it
fall an the ground and then husk
it with a team-mtch onto the
end of a husk am drive 'longside
of the ear an peel it off and then
go back after another
"Slow job"
"Yes. but there's twenty bush
els of corn when we get through.
l was oui looking at my wheat
yesterday and a head of it struck
me OH the shoulder and pretty
near broke my collar bone.'
"Yes."
81 have 10 have gas pipe for
my beans TO -cIimb-there are so
strong an squeeze so tight that
they cut a wooden pole III two in
a dozen places"
Yes"
"There was big rock on the
back end Of my place bout ten
feet each way an it stuck down
into The ground bout four feet.
[ laid reddish seeI on the mid
die OF it an The seed sOrter smelt
The remarkable rich sile down
under the rock. as | might say, ,
an it began to grow am down she
went. sharp end first of course,
md it split he rock in twenty
pieces an l drawed it off,"
"Yes."
81 might tell We lots of other
hings equally as s'prisin'if had
/ mind to-"
Il don't doubt it. But see here
ire you telling me all these in +
ernal lies because you want to t
ell your farm 2 c
Oh, no, sir no sir; I've just I
old YOU the usual thing. l don't .
rant TO SELL just do it for The {
,ood o. the country. There's j
ome as want L sell ye see, an